About the Authors

Mariam Susan LaTuga

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariam Susan LaTuga, Joseph Christopher Ellis

Affiliation Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, New York, New York, United States of America

Joseph Christopher Ellis

Contributed equally to this work with: Mariam Susan LaTuga, Joseph Christopher Ellis

Affiliation Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Charles Michael Cotton

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Jean and George Brumley, Jr Neonatal-Perinatal Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Ronald N. Goldberg

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Jean and George Brumley, Jr Neonatal-Perinatal Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

James L. Wynn

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Jean and George Brumley, Jr Neonatal-Perinatal Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Robert B. Jackson

Affiliations Department of Biology, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Nicholas School of the Environment and Center on Global Change, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Patrick C. Seed

patrick.seed@duke.edu

Affiliations Department of Pediatrics, Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Center for Microbial Pathogenesis, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America, Jean and George Brumley, Jr Neonatal-Perinatal Research Institute, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States of America

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

Author Contributions

Conceived and designed the experiments: MSL JCE CMC RBJ PCS. Performed the experiments: MSL JCE PCS. Analyzed the data: MSL JCE CMC RG JW RBJ PCS. Contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools: MSL JCE MCM PCS. Wrote the paper: MSL JCE CMC RG JW RBJ PCS.